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cruciferous vegetable

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Noun1.cruciferous vegetable - a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts
veg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
mustard greens, Indian mustard, leaf mustard, mustard - leaves eaten as cooked greens
cabbage, chou - any of various types of cabbage
broccoli - branched green undeveloped flower heads
cauliflower - compact head of white undeveloped flowers
brussels sprouts - the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant
broccoli raab, broccoli rabe - slightly bitter dark green leaves and clustered flower buds
kohlrabi, turnip cabbage - fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant
radish - pungent fleshy edible root
turnip - root of any of several members of the mustard family
crucifer, cruciferous plant - any of various plants of the family Cruciferae


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